Fixed price real estate lawyer fees in Costa Del Sol?
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Fixed price real estate lawyer fees in Costa Del Sol?
Hello all,
I have been told that real estate lawyers in Costa Del Sol charge a 1% rate or more of the sales price to handle a standard house sale/purchase.
It seems odd that there is not a fixed price for what is the same process no matter the price of the house.
Is there any good quality lawyer you known in Costa Del Sol who offers a fair fixed price?
cheers.
I have been told that real estate lawyers in Costa Del Sol charge a 1% rate or more of the sales price to handle a standard house sale/purchase.
It seems odd that there is not a fixed price for what is the same process no matter the price of the house.
Is there any good quality lawyer you known in Costa Del Sol who offers a fair fixed price?
cheers.
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I haven't heard of one's that charge 1% of or any percent of sale price. Ones around Velez Málaga area tend to charge a set fee of around 6000 euros!
My view is its better to pay a percentage of the sale price that way there's an incentive for Estate Agent to get the best price they can for your property. The 6000 fixed fee to me unless you have a grand expensive property a rip off.
My view is its better to pay a percentage of the sale price that way there's an incentive for Estate Agent to get the best price they can for your property. The 6000 fixed fee to me unless you have a grand expensive property a rip off.
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I haven't heard of one's that charge 1% of or any percent of sale price. Ones around Velez Málaga area tend to charge a set fee of around 6000 euros!
My view is its better to pay a percentage of the sale price that way there's an incentive for Estate Agent to get the best price they can for your property. The 6000 fixed fee to me unless you have a grand expensive property a rip off.
My view is its better to pay a percentage of the sale price that way there's an incentive for Estate Agent to get the best price they can for your property. The 6000 fixed fee to me unless you have a grand expensive property a rip off.
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Re: Fixed price real estate lawyer fees in Costa Del Sol?
Just to clarify, i am planning to buy a house and the lawyer quoted me 1% to do the legal work for the purchase.
It is the legal work for a purchase, not the sales commission.
Surely there must be a lawyer(s) in costa del sol who charges a fair fixed amount in euros regardless of the purchase price?
It is the legal work for a purchase, not the sales commission.
Surely there must be a lawyer(s) in costa del sol who charges a fair fixed amount in euros regardless of the purchase price?
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Re: Fixed price real estate lawyer fees in Costa Del Sol?
Just to clarify, i am planning to buy a house and the lawyer quoted me 1% to do the legal work for the purchase.
It is the legal work for a purchase, not the sales commission.
Surely there must be a lawyer(s) in costa del sol who charges a fair fixed amount in euros regardless of the purchase price?
It is the legal work for a purchase, not the sales commission.
Surely there must be a lawyer(s) in costa del sol who charges a fair fixed amount in euros regardless of the purchase price?
You will find that some things are done differently in Spain from the way they are in your own country, and if you have difficulty accepting that (even if the Spanish way is less advantageous to you) your life in Spain is not likely to be a happy one as you will be resentful and disgruntled a lot of the time.
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Sorry my apologies I miss read original and I referred to real estate agents costs. Yes solicitors fees are in my experience based on %. If I can I will remove my earlier comments.
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Re: Fixed price real estate lawyer fees in Costa Del Sol?
Hello all,
I have been told that real estate lawyers in Costa Del Sol charge a 1% rate or more of the sales price to handle a standard house sale/purchase.
It seems odd that there is not a fixed price for what is the same process no matter the price of the house.
Is there any good quality lawyer you known in Costa Del Sol who offers a fair fixed price?
cheers.
I have been told that real estate lawyers in Costa Del Sol charge a 1% rate or more of the sales price to handle a standard house sale/purchase.
It seems odd that there is not a fixed price for what is the same process no matter the price of the house.
Is there any good quality lawyer you known in Costa Del Sol who offers a fair fixed price?
cheers.
Stuff happens faster here as well and included in that 1% will (usually) be the notary fee's, swapping over the services, IBI payment and other stuff.
One thing you could try is to negotiate 'extras'. We told the solicitor that we would use them for our residence and driving licence swap, allow their accounts team to process our non-res taxes and when resident we would let them do our 720 etc, we have added our wills to this and they gave us a 40% discount on all the 'extras' as long as we accepted the 1% for the flat.
I suppose if you are spending €500,000 on a house its a bit hard to accept paying the 1% but its on higher priced properties where they make their money.
If it were just €999 per transaction there wouldn't be many solicitors left..
And we paid around this including IVA as the flat was not very expensive, so I suppose they didn't make much on me.
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Re: Fixed price real estate lawyer fees in Costa Del Sol?
Just to clarify, i am planning to buy a house and the lawyer quoted me 1% to do the legal work for the purchase.
It is the legal work for a purchase, not the sales commission.
Surely there must be a lawyer(s) in costa del sol who charges a fair fixed amount in euros regardless of the purchase price?
It is the legal work for a purchase, not the sales commission.
Surely there must be a lawyer(s) in costa del sol who charges a fair fixed amount in euros regardless of the purchase price?
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Flat 1000 euros for a lawyers fee sounds fair on a straightforward purchase of any price.
Why do they feel they can getaway with charging 5000 euros on 500k purchase but only charge 1k on a 100k purchase when it is essentially the same workload?
Why do they feel they can getaway with charging 5000 euros on 500k purchase but only charge 1k on a 100k purchase when it is essentially the same workload?
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I suppose that selling a house can require significantly varying degrees of effort depending on many factors, whereas the standard legal work on a purchase is fairly similar on almost all houses.
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Actually when you think about it a % is a fixed fee.
Even at 1% for a straight forward purchase of a property it is normally cheaper to use a lawyer who will fee you on an hourly basis. Most will.
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Even at 1% for a straight forward purchase of a property it is normally cheaper to use a lawyer who will fee you on an hourly basis. Most will.
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If there is I haven't come across one. I have bought two properties in Spain (in 2003 and in 2017) and the lawyers (different ones for each purchase) both charged 1% of the purchase price of the property.
You will find that some things are done differently in Spain from the way they are in your own country, and if you have difficulty accepting that (even if the Spanish way is less advantageous to you) your life in Spain is not likely to be a happy one as you will be resentful and disgruntled a lot of the time.
You will find that some things are done differently in Spain from the way they are in your own country, and if you have difficulty accepting that (even if the Spanish way is less advantageous to you) your life in Spain is not likely to be a happy one as you will be resentful and disgruntled a lot of the time.
Hello all,
I have been told that real estate lawyers in Costa Del Sol charge a 1% rate or more of the sales price to handle a standard house sale/purchase.
It seems odd that there is not a fixed price for what is the same process no matter the price of the house.
Is there any good quality lawyer you known in Costa Del Sol who offers a fair fixed price?
cheers.
I have been told that real estate lawyers in Costa Del Sol charge a 1% rate or more of the sales price to handle a standard house sale/purchase.
It seems odd that there is not a fixed price for what is the same process no matter the price of the house.
Is there any good quality lawyer you known in Costa Del Sol who offers a fair fixed price?
cheers.